"contributed the lyrics to 850 songs, according to ""The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II"", edited by Amy Asch. Some well-known songs are ""Ol' Man River"", ""Can't Help Lovin' That Man"" and ""Make Believe"" from ""Show Boat""; ""Indian Love Call"" from ""Rose-Marie""; ""People Will Say We're in Love"" and ""Oklahoma"" (which has been the official state song of Oklahoma since 1953) from ""Oklahoma!""; ""Some Enchanted Evening"", from ""South Pacific""; ""Getting to Know You"" and ""Shall We Dance"" from ""The King and I""; and the title song as well as ""Climb Ev'ry Mountain"" from ""The Sound of Music"". Several albums of"
"Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalists and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote ""Show Boat"", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund"
"won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2010s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin's ""Of Thee I Sing"" (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""South Pacific"" (1950), Bock & Harnick's ""Fiorello!"" (1960), Frank Loesser's ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1962), Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Jr., and Nicholas Dante's ""A Chorus Line"" (1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's ""Sunday in the Park with George"" (1985), Jonathan Larson's ""Rent"" (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's ""Next to Normal"" (2010), and Lin-Manuel Miranda's ""Hamilton"" (2016). ""Of Thee I Sing"", ""Sunday in the"
"his presidency at the Guild until 1960. Hammerstein died of stomach cancer on August 23, 1960, at his home Highland Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, at 65, shortly after the opening of ""The Sound of Music"" on Broadway. The final song he wrote was ""Edelweiss"", which was added near the end of the second act during rehearsal. This was not an Austrian folk song but had been written specifically for the musical. After his death, ""The Sound of Music"" was made into the 1965 film adaptation, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The lights of Times Square were turned"
"issues such as racism, sexism and classism in many of their works. For example, ""Carousel"" concerns domestic violence, while ""South Pacific"" addresses racism. Based on the true story of the von Trapp family, ""The Sound of Music"" explores the views of Austrians to the takeover of Austria by the Third Reich. Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the"
"ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for ""Oklahoma!"" in 1944. This musical, building on the innovations of the earlier ""Show Boat"", epitomized the development of the ""book musical"", a musical play where the songs and dances are fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals that are able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter. In addition, ""Oklahoma!"" features musical themes, or motifs,"
"lived to the age of 102. In the early 1940s, composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, each a longtime Broadway veteran, joined forces and began their collaboration by writing two musicals that became massive hits, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943) and ""Carousel"" (1945). An innovation for its time in integrating song, dialogue and dance, ""Oklahoma!"" would serve as ""the model for Broadway shows for decades"". In 1999, ""Time"" magazine named ""Carousel"" the best musical of the century, writing that Rodgers and Hammerstein ""set the standards for the 20th century musical"". Their next effort, ""Allegro"" (1947), was a comparative disappointment, running for"
"year, she co-authored ""Getting the Goods"", a play for vaudeville. Hammerstein appeared in the films ""The Ace of Death"" (1915), ""Anna Karenina"" (1915), and ""Social Hypocrites"" (1918). In September 1919, approximately two months after the death of their father, Hammerstein and her sister, Rose Hammerstein Tostevain, became owners of the Hammerstein Amusement Company. A judge of the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that the two daughters were the rightful owners of 4,998 shares of the company's total of 5,000 shares of stock. The ownership had been the subject of a legal dispute involving the sisters, Oscar"
"Hammerstein's musicals were named to the ""Songs of the Century"" list as compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Corporation: Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song—in 1941 for ""The Last Time I Saw Paris"" in the film ""Lady Be Good"", and in 1945 for ""It Might as Well Be Spring"" in ""State Fair."" In 1950, the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award ""in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."" Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards,"
"were done. Oscar is not about the 'lark that is learning to pray' – that's easy to make fun of. He's about ""Allegro"","" Hammerstein's most experimental musical. His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially ""The Sound of Music"", in which a song sung by those in favor of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, ""No Way to Stop It"", was cut. As recent revivals of ""Show Boat"", ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", and ""The King and I"" in London and New York show, Hammerstein was one of the more tough-minded and socially conscious American"
"Oscar Hammerstein II. Arthur produced almost 30 musicals in 40 years in show business. During a performance of ""Tickle Me"" in 1920, Hammerstein was arrested for possessing what was thought to be whiskey during the Prohibition era, which later turned out to be iced tea. In 1930 Hammerstein was accused by a dance director George Haskell for assault but the charges were later dropped and the two reconciled. To search for better business opportunities, Hammerstein went to Hollywood to produce his one and only film ""The Lottery Bride"", which was a failure and he returned to Broadway again. Hammerstein's last"
"won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for ""Oklahoma!"". In 1954, Rodgers conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from ""Victory at Sea"", ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"" and the ""Carousel Waltz"" for a special LP released by Columbia Records. Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 37 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards. After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project ""No Strings"" (1962, which earned two Tony Awards). The show was a minor hit and featured the song, ""The"
"that later historians writing about important moments in twentieth-century theatre would begin to identify eras according to their relationship to ""Oklahoma!"""" ""After ""Oklahoma!"", Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form... The examples they set in creating vital plays, often rich with social thought, provided the necessary encouragement for other gifted writers to create musical plays of their own"". The two collaborators created an extraordinary collection of some of musical theatre's best loved and most enduring classics, including ""Carousel"" (1945), ""South Pacific"" (1949), ""The King and I"" (1951) and ""The Sound of Music"" (1959). Some of"
"military knowledge, Hammerstein had difficulty writing that part of the script; the director of the original production, Logan, assisted him and received credit as co-writer of the book. The original Broadway production enjoyed immense critical and box-office success, became the second-longest running Broadway musical to that point (behind Rodgers and Hammerstein's earlier ""Oklahoma!"" (1943)), and has remained popular ever since. After they signed Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin as the leads, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote several of the songs with the particular talents of their stars in mind. The piece won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. Especially in"
"he produced ""Carmen Jones"" with an all-black cast. An adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera ""Carmen,"" the story was transplanted to World War II America by lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It was an instant hit. The ""New York Telegraph"" called it ""far and away the best show in New York""; ""The New York Times"" said it was ""beautifully done ... just call it wonderful."" The ""New York Herald Tribune"" said that Oscar Hammerstein II ""must be considered one of the greatest librettists of our day"" and that ""Carmen Jones"" was ""a masterly tour de force."" It was made into"
"was adapted as a 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which won five Academy Awards. ""The Sound of Music"" was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Oscar Hammerstein died of stomach cancer nine months after the Broadway premiere. After viewing ""The Trapp Family"", a 1956 West German film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel (""""), stage director Vincent J. Donehue thought that the project would be perfect for his friend Mary Martin; Broadway producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin's husband) agreed. The producers originally envisioned a non-musical play that would be"
"viewed as too moralistic, and the Broadway run ended after nine months; it was followed by a short national tour. It had no West End production and has rarely been revived. There are two recordings of ""Allegro"", the original cast album and a studio recording released in 2009. Oscar Hammerstein II had always wanted to write a serious drama, one which would address the problems of life confronting ordinary people. By early 1946, three years after his partnership with Richard Rodgers commenced, the duo had two hits (""Oklahoma!"" and ""Carousel"") on Broadway, and success as producers of musicals others had"
"in our musical there were lynchings, imprisonment, and forced labor of the blacks in the United States is irrefutable. Indeed, the United States still cannot hold its head high with regard to racism. Oscar Hammerstein's commitment to idealizing and encouraging tolerance theatrically started with his libretto to ""Show Boat"". It can be seen in his later works, many of which were set to music by Richard Rodgers. ""Carmen Jones"" is an attempt to present a modern version of the classic French opera through the experiences of African Americans during wartime, and ""South Pacific"" explores interracial marriage and prejudice. Finally, ""The"
"II, accompanied with a live orchestra by the Southbank Sinfonia. The production sold out with rave reviews and returned to the Olivier Theatre at the NT with Msamati and Gillen reprising the roles of Salieri and Mozart from February to 24 April 2018, again with rave reviews. The 1984 film adaptation won an Academy Award for Best Picture. In total, the film won eight Academy Awards. It starred F. Murray Abraham as Salieri (winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance), Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze. The play was thoroughly reworked by Shaffer and the"
"Oscar Hammerstein Award The Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre is named in honor of American lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein, who helped shape American theater music through his collaborations with a number of different composers and writers. The award was created in 1988 by Janet Hayes Walker, the Founding Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company, and is presented with the endorsement of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the Hammerstein family. The Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala is the major annual fundraising event of The York, a mainstay of the Off-Broadway scene for more than 45"
"for the producer's nephew Oscar Hammerstein II. He composed music for the famous operetta, ""Rose-Marie"". Stothart soon joined with many famous composers including Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin and Franz Lehár. Stothart achieved pop-chart success with standards like “Cute Little Two by Four”, “Wildflower”, “Bambalina”, “The Mounties”, “Totem Tom-Tom”, “Why Shouldn’t We?”, “Fly Away”, “Song of the Flame”, “The Cossack Love Song”, “Dawn”, “I Wanna Be Loved by You”, “Cuban Love Song”, “The Rogue Song” and “The Donkey Serenade.” The year 1929 marked the end of the era of silent films. Shortly after completing his latest musical “Golden Dawn” with Oscar"
"Mathias by his first wife, and James Hammerstein by his second wife, with whom he also had a stepdaughter, Susan Blanchard. Hammerstein was one of the most important ""book writers"" in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form. According to Stephen Sondheim, ""What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the theater was as a theoretician, as a Peter Brook, as an innovator. People don't understand how experimental ""Show Boat"" and ""Oklahoma!"" felt at the time they"
"Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles. His first association with Wendy Wasserstein was the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning ""The Heidi Chronicles"", which he directed off Broadway, on Broadway and its National Tour. The duo later collaborated on ""The Sisters Rosensweig"" on Broadway and the National Tour, ""An American Daughter"", and Ms. Wasserstein's final play, ""Third."" He directed both the off-Broadway and screen version of Jon Robin Baitz's ""The Substance of Fire"", as well as the original productions of ""A Fair Country"" and ""Ten Unknowns"" in New York, and Baitz's translation of ""Hedda Gabler"" in Los Angeles. His collaborations with"
"of the award categories. Two new categories debuted at this ceremony: Best Sound Design of a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Play. The Tony Award nominations were announced on May 13, 2008 by David Hyde Pierce and Sara Ramirez. ""In the Heights"", which premiered Off-Broadway, garnered the most nominations of any show with 13. ""Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific"" received 11, the second most of any revival to date (one of these was in the new ""sound design"" category). The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama """" earned seven nominations. The revival of ""Sunday in the Park With George"" received nine"
"""Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years"", scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan. Rodgers composed the theme music, ""March of the Clowns"", for the 1963–64 television series ""The Greatest Show on Earth"", which ran for 30 episodes. He also contributed the main-title theme for the 1963–64 historical anthology television series ""The Great Adventure"". In 1950, Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award ""in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."" Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for ""South Pacific"". Rodgers and Hammerstein had"
"from Syracuse"" (1938), ""Pal Joey"" (1940), and ""By Jupiter"" (1942), as well as many successful film projects. Hammerstein, a co-writer of the popular Rudolf Friml 1924 operetta ""Rose-Marie"", and Sigmund Romberg operettas ""The Desert Song"" (1926) and ""The New Moon"" (1928), began a successful collaboration with composer Jerome Kern on ""Sunny"" (1925), which was a hit. Their 1927 musical ""Show Boat"" is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre. Other Hammerstein/Kern collaborations include ""Sweet Adeline"" (1929) and ""Very Warm for May"" (1939). Although the last of these was panned by critics, it contains one of"
"repertoire mixed in with standard works. He notably staged the world premiere of Aaron Copland's ""The Tender Land"", the New York premiere of William Walton's ""Troilus and Cressida"", and the United States premieres of Gottfried von Einem's ""The Trial"" and Béla Bartók's ""Bluebeard's Castle"". Rosenstock was also the first NYCO director to include musical theatre in the company's repertoire, with a 1954 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's ""Show Boat""; a production which starred Broadway musical veteran and operatic soprano Helena Bliss. This decision was ridiculed by the press, but Rosenstock felt justified as the musical played to"
"Sound of Music"", as well as the musical film ""State Fair"" (and its stage adaptation of the same name), and the television musical ""Cinderella"", all featured in the revue ""A Grand Night for Singing"". Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for ""Carmen Jones"", an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera ""Carmen"" with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film. An active advocate for writers's rights within the theatre industry, Hammerstein was a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. In 1956, he was elected as the eleventh president of the non-profit organization. He continued"
"""Oklahoma!"" (London and Australia), ""The King and I"" (Tel Aviv, US and UK tours), and ""Carousel"". For many years he directed staged readings of notable playwrights, such as Jeff Wanshel, Ron Cowan, and Werner Liepolt as ""American Triptych,"" under the auspices of George White and Lloyd Richards' National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Memorial Theater Center in Waterford, Conn. Hammerstein was nominated for the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue for ""I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"" (as producer) and the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for ""The Sound of Music"". Hammerstein"
"Night With Oscar Hammerstein II” was rebranded as “SINCERELY, OSCAR” and scheduled to return to Off Broadway in a full production remount opening in March 2019 and running for 14 weeks at the Acorn Theatre in Theatre Row on 42nd Street in NYC. It will costar Johnathan Lee Iverson (the first African American and last ringmaster of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.) Taylor is a former beauty queen title holder and has performed the National Anthem for the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, the NHL's New York Islanders and Boston Bruins, and the Buffalo Bisons, a"
"years. Past recipients include Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, Harold Prince, Cy Coleman, Charles Strouse, Arthur Laurents, Jerry Herman, Stephen Schwartz, Peter Stone, David Merrick, John Kander & Fred Ebb, Terrence McNally, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Carol Channing, Tony Walton, Joseph Stein, Thomas Meehan, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Barbara Cook, Paul Gemignani, Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty. In December 2016, the 25th Oscar Hammerstein Award was presented to Joel Grey in a star-studded tribute evening. Oscar Hammerstein Award The Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre is named in honor of American lyricist and"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's new show, ""Me and Juliet"", although ""South Pacific"" had to be moved to Boston for five weeks because of schedule conflicts. When it closed on January 16, 1954, after 1,925 performances, it was the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history, after ""Oklahoma!"". At the final performance, Myron McCormick, the only cast member remaining from the opening, led the performers and audience in ""Auld Lang Syne""; the curtain did not fall but remained raised as the audience left the theatre. On a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian children, Ngana and Jerome, happily sing as they"
"Kern, with whom Hammerstein enjoyed a highly successful collaboration. In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, ""Show Boat"", which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre. ""Here we come to a completely new genre — the musical play as distinguished from musical comedy. Now ... the play was the thing, and everything else was subservient to that play. Now ... came complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single and inextricable artistic entity."" Many years later, Hammerstein's wife Dorothy bristled when she heard a remark that"